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Unit 5: Early Greek Art and Architecture Flashcards

1
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Mediterranean influences on greek art

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was influenced by other areas style of art

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kneeling youth from Samos
600 BCE

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why are there no known greek female artists?

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they were often kept in the house

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Goddess from Artemision of Delos
650 BCE

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5
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Kouros

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male (depicted naked)

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Kouros from Tenea
570 BCE

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Kore

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Female (depicted fully clothed)

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Peplos Kore
570 BCE

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Art conservation

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uses chemistry to remake pigment or determine appeareance

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painted statues

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Most statues were actually painted. Colour came off and now everything is thought to always have been white

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Kritios boy

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shows transition from Koures (idealized youth) to more naturalistic (still idealized, but more natural)

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Kritios Boy

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Contrapposto

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emphasis on showing people as they actually are (natural poses)

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Charioteer of Delphi
478-474 BCE
has open posture, but is equally balanced

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Warrior from Riace
500-400BCE

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Doryphorous by Polycitus
Original bronze by greeks
Marble by romans

17
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the canon

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  • a system of rulers
  • accepted texts
  • greeks had canon for poses and figures
18
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The pathenon
Greece
to make it symmetrical, they had to make it irregular and asymmetrical

19
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columns

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simple top=doric
curly cue = ionic
plant life = corinthian

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doric

21
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ionic

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corinthian

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coins
443-400BCE
developed visual culture

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Etruscan She wolf
500BCE
idealized, started off as just a wolf and later was added too

25
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Etruscan She wolf modified with babies Romulus and Remus. Became a propaganda story about rulers for the people of Rome

26
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Why are females not depicted naked in early greek and roman art?

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Were kept in the house. They were prized for modesty, not sexuality

27
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Male nudity in early Greece

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Built around upper class with older guys hanging out with younger male lover.
The object of desire in greek culture is a young man

28
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drinking cup

29
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Vase by Exekias
540-530BCE
One of first found pieces that artist signed

30
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caryatids
erecthion/acropolis
400BCE
represent maidens of goddess

31
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Shift in female nudity

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trends shift and women start being depicted naked. Still reference clothing/modesty by trying to cover up with hands

32
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Pudic gesture

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covering of chest and genital area with hands. is a symbol of modesty or shame

33
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Aphrodite
is doing pudic gesture

34
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Where does the term porne come from?

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greek word for common prostitutes

ARTH 120 (12 decks)

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